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Secretary Roger Warren Evans
secretary@leftrights.org.uk
01792-360673
 
SoCLA is working within the Labour Party for the cause of Human Rights
  
 
   

Identity Cards

SoCLA continues to oppose the introduction, by the UK Government, of official identification cards capable of being used as identity cards.  David Blunkett, having reached the right conclusion eighteen months ago and rejected such cards, has once more been persuaded by an authoritarian Home Office to change course.  Such cards carry with them the evident risk of abuse by public agencies of all kinds, including the Police

And no overriding public interest case has been established, for their introduction. Throughout Europe, there has been long experience of the operation of mandatory ID cards, which have done little to reduce the difficulties of law enforcement in modern - mobile, dense, urban - societies.

  • Labour should retain a due sense of perspective and avoid the adoption of governmental techniques likely to involve the gratuitous erosion of civil liberties in the longer term.

 

    
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